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...little chance that the major powers will engage in nuclear war in the near future. There is no conceivable advantage to be gained by any party in such a conflict. Instead, the first nuclear aggressor will in all likelihood be a relatively isolated country that is affluent enough to possess the bomb but perceives its survival to be endangered by some local dispute. More attention should be paid to controlling nuclear weapons in those areas of the world than between the superpowers...
...kind of town where entrepreneurial skills appear to possess no symmetry, no balance. Commerce seems based forthrightly on everything the traffic will bear, all under one roof. One does not find, for instance, a record-and-tape store so much as one finds an establishment whose sign proffers: SWEET CORN, LOCAL GROWN. WE MAKE KEYS. Gasoline stations offer beer, shoes, crickets, night crawlers and, in season, onions. The onion accounts for $9 million worth of the local economy each year. The harvest ended last month...
...very hard to get people interested in a game hey've never played extensively before," says Lee, noting the talents the club's membership possess. "The rules are very simple, but it takes considerable time to master," he adds...
...every physician knows the difference "between prolonging the act of dying and protecting the act of living," as Surgeon General Koop asserts, is fallacious. As a registered nurse, I have come in contact with doctors who could not perceive the difference because the choice is not always clear. Physicians possess no more of the godlike qualities than the rest...
...poisonous, a view shared by the Chinese--who had carved a snake coiled around a rod from hemp stalks since the time of Shen Nung, legendary" father of medicine Queen Victoria's personal physician came to view cannabis as "one of the most valuable medicines that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders. He and other physicians of the time recommended it for both the cure and the prevention of migraine...